ARTICLES
Business Continuity Planning: New Choices in Alternative Site Selection
This article identifies common misconceptions regarding selection of alternative sites and explores options for designing your own plans.
by: Anne Pickren
Performance Hierarchy of Disaster Recovery Solutions
This article offers a new strategy for preparation of DR planning. by: Ed Baker, Greg Van Hise, Steve Luko
Systematic Disaster Planning: Part One
In this two part article, the first of the series focuses on theories of probability and scenario-based analysis. The second piece will appear in the upcoming Fall 1997 issue.
by: Mark Jablonowski
Print & Mail Business Recovery Services
Print and Mail services are crucial portions of a business’ service relations with its customers. This article stresses the importance of maintaining a working DR plan for this segment of your business.
by: Bill Rider
Vital Records Protection Issues
Recent events have affected the off-site, alternative storage industry. This article offers various criteria to keep in mind when selecting such off-site storage facilities.
by: Pat Moore, CBCP
How to Develop a Comprehensive Business Resumption Plan
Business Resumption Plans at large corporations go through many phases of development. The authors offer ideas on how to communicate and prepare for management’s criticisms and involvement.
by: Christopher Glancy & Piotrek Stamieszkin
Training your Business Continuity Teams
This article outlines phases of training for the business continuity team. Items highlighted are pre-planning, planning, post-plan development, and pre-exercise phases.
by: Raja K. Iyer, Ph.D., CBCP & Rodolfo Garcia Diez, CBCP
Disaster Recovery for Businesses
During the month of April, AT&T conducted a week long simulated disaster. This article highlights details and results of their simulation.
by: Frank Ianna
Human Error: But Which Human?
Human error is an inevitable aspect of our environment. This article addresses issues of why mistakes happen and tells how to reduce occurrences of errors.
by: Randolph G. Bias, Ph.D. & Douglas J. Gillan, Ph.D.
The ‘97 Midwest Floods
Reviewing details of flooding during the past few months, this article outlines events along the Red River’s path in the United States.
by: Daniel B. Carlson
Floods Can’t Stop the Presses in Grand Forks
Despite the Red River flood and the subsequent fire that hit North Dakota, the Grand Forks Herald managed to keep its operations in order. The author reviews the situation during the most crucial period of the disaster.
by: Laura Parker
Red River Rising
This article highlights events which happened in the city of Winnipeg, Canada and details how the rising waters were handled.
by: Mark Bennett
1997 Other Services Survey Addendum
Several additional companies are included in this listing of service providers. The survey is a follow-up to the published listing of the Spring 1997 issue.
Public/Private Partnership
Viewing current governmental trends with private and public partnerships, this commentary focuses on concerns dealing with the privatization of the National Weather Service (NWS).
by: David Robert Smith
Marquette Medical Systems
When upgrades to an entire storage management solution are necessary, there are many options to be considered. Learn how one company managed the change and greatly improved their backup and recovery capabilities.
by: Steven Goodman
DEPARTMENTS
THE PERSPECTIVE OF ED DEVLIN
PLANNING GROUP CONTACTS
PPBI— by Anne Venters: “PPBI Study Shows Need for Private/Public Exchange of Information”
PLANNER’S GUIDE— by Terry Sexton: “The Business Recovery Lesson Plan”
DRI INTERNATIONAL— by Raja Iyer: “Standards for Certification of BCPs”
UPCOMING EVENTS
NEWS BRIEFS
AROUND THE WORLD
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